The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
by Saroyan, William
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Random House, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition stated. Light grey cloth boards with black spine, gold foil title band across both boards, typographic dust jacket priced at $2.50, 9-1/4" tall, 270 pp. Cracking to foil at gutters, as is common with this book, toning to dust jacket (also common), the external panels are tan instead of blue-grey, spine toned more, small chipping & short closed tears, looks nice over all. Debut book featuring the Armenian-American's breakout story.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002154
- Title
- The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
- Author
- Saroyan, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Date Published
- 1934
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Crooked House Books & Paper
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About the Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper
Biblio member since 2005
Portland, Oregon
About Crooked House Books & Paper
Welcome to the Crooked House, a one-of-a-kind bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the beautiful and unusual: books by, for and about women, cookery, domestic science, decorative publishers bindings, weird how-to books and ephemera, 1920s-30s women's magazines, Modern Library, and more.
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...